Reading Company Grain Elevator | |
Location: | 411 N. 20th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 39.9611°N -75.1717°W |
Built: | 1925 |
Architect: | Reading Co. |
Added: | March 10, 1982 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 82003813 |
The Reading Company Grain Elevator was built as a grain elevator in 1925 by the Reading Railroad in Center City Philadelphia to replace an elevator that had operated on the same spot since the Civil War. The building was abandoned in the 1950s and refitted in the 1970, with the lower floor made into offices, the grain storage areas essentially untouched, and the upper levels made into penthouses.[1] [2]